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Will Ferrell Gets Dramatic For Everything Must Go
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... the few comedy actors who has successfully embraced a new role as an independent, sometimes dramatic actor. Jim Carrey couldve done it. He was amazing in The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine . Adam Sandler still has a chance to do it. He was a shining light in the flawed Funny People . And Will Ferrell still has a shot at it. Remember Stranger than Fiction and the lesser known Winter Passing ? Well, it seems as though Will may have another go at outgrowing his comedy mold. Variety reports that Ricky Bobby has signed on to play the lead in the upcoming Everything ...
Will Ferrell To Make A Scene On the Front Lawn
Vulture —
Yard Sale: Will Ferrell has signed on to star in low-budget indie flick Everything Must Go, the first film from commercials director Dan Rush. Ferrell will play a brillo-headed guy who sells all his belongings from the front lawn after his wife kicks him out. The whole shebang is budgeted for $10 million, or, as Ferrell refers to it, the price of one velvet tracksuit. [Variety]
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Will Ferrell says Everything Must Go
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Will Ferrell is looking to switch things up a little after some career disappointments - he's signed on to Dan Rush's indie comedy Everything Must go. In a change from his usual blockbuster comedy (well, it will be - first he has to finish up work on The Other Guys with Adam McKay), he's agreed to star in advert director Rush's first film. Based on a Raymond Carver short story, Rush has come up with a tale of a man who loses his job, is locked out of the house by his wife and has his belongings chucked on the front lawn. To make money, he spends the next four days trying to sell his wordily goods. ...
Will Ferrell to star in indie film ‘Everything Must Go’
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Will Ferrell will star in Everything Must Go , an indie film to be directed by commercials director Dan Rush, Variety reports . Rush also wrote the script, based on a Raymond Carver short story. Ferrell plays a guy who loses his job and gets kicked out by his wife, so he spends a few days trying to sell his possessions from her front lawn.
'Everything Must Go' For Will Ferrell
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It placed high on the 2008 Black List, and is evidently Carson 'ScriptShadow' Reeves' favorite script of all time, but Raymond Carver adaptation "Everything Must Go" has been moving pretty slowly towards production. Until today, that is, with the news from Variety that Will Ferrell has signed to play the lead. Based on Carver's story "Why Don't You Dance," it centers on a man who, when thrown out of his house by his wife, starts to live on the front lawn, trying to sell his possessions. It's set to be directed by commercials director, and the film's screenwriter, ...
Will Ferrell "Must Go" Indie
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Will Ferrell will star in the independent film "Everything Must Go" says Variety.
Based on a Raymond Carver short story, Ferrell plays a man who loses his job and gets locked out of the house by his wife. She deposits his belongings on the front lawn, and he spends the next four days trying to sell his possessions.
Dan Rush adapted the script and makes his directorial debut on the project which begins filming in March.
Will Ferrell Set for EVERYTHING MUST GO
We Are Movie Geeks —
Will Ferrell is going back to the indie world with EVERYTHING MUST GO. According to Variety, he has signed on to star in the Dan Rush-directed indie flick with production set to begin in March.
The story, written by Rush, centers on a man who loses his job and is kicked out of his own house by his wife. With all of his personal belongings dumped on the front lawn, the man set out to sell everything he owns in an impromptu yard sale.
Says producer Marty Bowen about Ferrell being on board:
Will is one of the best at making an audience sympathize with a character’s ordeal, and the blending and ...
Is Will Ferrell Taking a Step Back? Today in Film Bloggery 10/16/09
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Oftentimes a big star will be humbled by a few flops and he/she will take a step back to work on a smaller project or two before making another attempt at something as unnecessarily expensive as Land of the Lost. Is this what’s going on with Will Ferrell, though? According to Variety, he’s signed on to a little comedy called Everything Must Go, a title which could be attributed to his recent bombs, including The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, which he produced and tried to help sell via a much-publicized ...
News & Notes: Green Lantern Moves, Raimi on Spider-Man 4, Malick’s Tree
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It’s the end of the week, and we’ve got a bunch of news stories in the bin here at Reject HQ that we’d like to share with you. Unfortunately, not all of them are very big news stories — you know, the kind that don’t require the standard 500-word editorial. With that in mind, we’d like to present today’s news and notes…
- The current global economic situation has pushed Green Lantern out of Australia. Due to the big rise int he Aussie dollar, Warner Bros. is moving back to North America (probably Mexico or Canada). There is still no word yet as to whether ...
Friday movie news dump
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* In the wake of his “Land of the Lost” debacle, Will Ferrell is going back to “Stranger than Fiction” territory with a more low-key form of comedy, writes Mike Fleming. “Everything Must Go” will be from first-time feature director Dan Rush and is based on a story by Raymond Carver — not an author frequently connected with hilarity though the script is apparently primarily a comedy and the premise (a newly unemployed guy’s wife locks him out and deposits his stuff on the lawn…and ...
Will Ferrell to star in indie comedy “Everything Must Go”
IMOOVIZINE —
Will Ferrell will star in director Dan Rush debut feature film – the indie ‘Everything Must Go’.
‘Everything Must Go’ is based on a story by the late Raymond Carver. Ferrell will play a guy who loses his job and gets locked out of the house by his wife. She deposits his belongings on the front lawn, and he spends the next four days trying to sell his possessions.
This should more than make up for the “Land of the Lost.”
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